To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

I am as I am, And so is a stone; Them that don't like me, Must leave me alone.

Why were you feeling low? Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.